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These sociopaths have no rhyme or reason, and that’s part of the fascination of these films.
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Why does the opening of a cardboard box give me tacit permission to act like a sociopath?
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Only a sociopath or a sadist could tell a lie of this magnitude, but again, such broad characters are par for the course in shows like this.
—Judy Berman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Related Stories Leave it to Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) to get trapped in a billionaire sociopath’s museum room for serial killers, alongside his former colleague and now-dead friend Angel Batista (David Zayas) lying on the floor.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Why does the opening of a cardboard box give me tacit permission to act like a sociopath?
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Only a sociopath or a sadist could tell a lie of this magnitude, but again, such broad characters are par for the course in shows like this.
—Judy Berman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Related Stories Leave it to Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) to get trapped in a billionaire sociopath’s museum room for serial killers, alongside his former colleague and now-dead friend Angel Batista (David Zayas) lying on the floor.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Sociopath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sociopath. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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sociopath
noun
so·cio·path
ˈsō-sē-ə-ˌpath 
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
: a sociopathic individual
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